Massage appliance.



110.723,?35. PATENTED MAR,24,'19o3.

T. SGHILLBERG.

MASSAGE APPLIANCE.

APPLIOATIPN mum JULY 8, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES PATENT 0FFlCE TORSTEN SOHILLBERG, or GLASGOW, SCOTLAND.

MASSAG E APPLIANCE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 723,735, dated March 24, 1903-. Application filed July 8, 1902. Serial No. 114,717. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, TORSTEN SOHILLBERG, masseur, a subject of the King of Sweden and Norway, and a resident of 353 Bath street, Glasgow, Scotland, have invented a Massage Appliance Ohiefly for the Self-Treatment of the Scalp, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a massage appliance chiefly for the self-treatment of the scalp.

The appliance consists of a pair of handles A, which may be of wood or other material, with circular or other-shaped ends a, as shown in the perspective view, Figure 1, into which hollow conical rubbers B, preferably of indiarubber, are fixed. The two handles are connected together by means of the link 0 and eyelets c, which are screwed into the tops of the handles. The patient takes a handle in each hand, with his head between the rubbers, the linking of the handles together enabling the patient to give any required pressure upon the scalp without exertion, the head being gripped or wedged between the two rubbers, so that, the scalp being gripped by the rubbers, any desired friction movement can be given between the scalp and the skull for the purpose of increasing the circulation of the blood in the scalp, by means of which the scalp gets nourished and the hair growth is strengthened.

As shown in Fig. 2, the rubbers B are insorted within the wood a of the handle, being retained by means of the ring-plate a, secured by screws o The hollow of the rubbers is preferably ribbed, as shown, to assist in the rubber gripping the, scalp in the; giving of the requiredjfriction motion of the scalp on the skull, the hollow of the rubbers also tending to give adherence of the rubbers to the scalp by suction.

By meansof this appliance the patient can material secured to the face of said handle,

substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

2. A massage appliance consisting of a handle A and a cup-shaped rubber B of elastic material, ribbed on its concave face and secured to the face of said handle, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.

3. The massage appliance herein described, consisting of a pair of handles A A, a link 0 forming a universal-hinge connection between them and cup-shaped rubbers of elastic material mounted on the opposite faces of said handles. 7

4. The massage appliance herein described, consisting of a pair of handles A A, a link 0 forminga universal-hinge connection between them and cup-shaped rubbers of elastic material, ribbed on their concave faces and mounted on the opposite faces of said handles.

5. The combination of the handles A A; the link C forming a universal-hinge connection between said handles and internally ribbed, cup-shaped rubbers B B, of elastic material on the opposite faces of the handles near their hinge connection, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

TORSTEN SCHILLBERG.

Witnesses:

J. W. MACALISTER, GEORGE BOYD. 

